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Reid Flip-Flops on Pizza, Holds Firm on Iraq
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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: The Iraq debate on the Senate floor is serious and weighty.
But Democratic Senators are really are getting into the spirit of their all-night filibuster buster behind the scenes too. Earlier, they had cots delivered to a room just off the Senate floor to take naps mid-debate. Just now, the pizza arrived. Call it a little college-cram-style fuel for the anti-surge debate team.
This despite the fact that Harry Reid declared to reporters just yesterday that Senators would not be ordering out pizza for their all-night session.
A reporter asked Reid: "Mr. Leader, aside from staying in session the whole -- the next 48 hours or so, how will you dramatize this? Will we have cots in the hall, constant pizza box deliveries? How will the American people know, if they're watching the floor, what..."
REID interupted the reporter: "I personally don't like pizza, so that won't be a part of the deal. We are going to have votes during the night. We're not going to let everybody go home and have a good night's rest. We feel that this is important enough that we have votes during the night. And we will have some votes."
More than 30 boxes of Al's pizza, a local DC purveyor of pies, were wheeled into the Capitol Building just before 6pm by two pages and a gray plastic cart.
The pages declined to provide any slices to the reporters who watched them wheel on by, past the senate floor and into the Democratic cloak room, where Democrats were set to dine before setting to their debate in earnest. Needless to say the reporters were "hungry" for the story.
The normally august corridor just off the Senate floor had odeur de pepperoni and mozerella cheese.
For Reid (and any other anti-pizza, anti-surge senators in the Democratic ranks), there were two aluminun pans covered with tin foil. Salad? Lasagne? A mystery for the ages.
July 18, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (13)
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I'm sure Harry ordered the tin foil to replace the hat he left at home.
Posted by: Patrick | Jul 17, 2007 7:06:32 PM
"We're not going to let everybody go home and have a good night's rest."
But, Senator, doesn't that constitute torture?
Posted by: Connie | Jul 17, 2007 7:11:13 PM
Has anyone researched history to see if there's ever been a Senate leader as stupid (and criminal) as Dirty Harry?
Posted by: Scrapiron | Jul 17, 2007 7:12:45 PM
And ABC News actually reported this? Have pigs actually started flying?
Posted by: jdawg | Jul 17, 2007 7:39:56 PM
Even the moderates are saying we can't just cut and run from Iraq. The Dems claim there is no war.
Thank goodness there are some people willing to fight both in Iraq and Afghanistan and back home in the Congress to protect those who value their freedom
Harry doesn't like pizza? Why am I not surprised.
Posted by: Hening | Jul 17, 2007 8:37:23 PM
Weeeeeeeeeee, it's a Democratic Pajama Party. We can stay up all night and trash talk Bush, make Popcorn and make Prank Phone Calls to Dick Chaney's house.
Weeeeeeeeeee,
Look at US, Were the Bosses Now!!!
Posted by: Steve | Jul 17, 2007 8:55:13 PM
Anyone who doesn't like pizza is Anti-American so what does that make Dirty Harry?
Posted by: David | Jul 17, 2007 10:06:39 PM
If I see this post I'll know that the Dems just slept late after the all night session. Eight posts and everyone expressing the typical right wing attitude. After all the antics the Republicans pulled during their reign in the Congress, you'd think the Pubs would applaud Reid for trying to compete in the "Show and Spin" competition that seems to be the full time occupation of our Public Paid Representatives these days. How, may I ask, do the Republicans manage to force a 60 Vote requirement on the "Majority Leadership"?
Posted by: Goldie | Jul 18, 2007 11:17:39 AM
OMG! I just lost 125 IQ points reading the first seven comments... but that's OK. Obviously that qualifies me to hang out and drool over All-Murican pizza with Hening, Steve, scrapiron, jdawg, and their buds. Whoa! I finally even have the qualifications to register as a Republican!
Posted by: Larry McD | Jul 18, 2007 12:49:19 PM
God bless our military, who have fought and died to make Senators like Clinton and Reid free to speak their blather....
Posted by: Hollie | Jul 18, 2007 12:52:16 PM
COULD THESE WORDS OF ADVICE FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL APPLY TO THE STRUGGLE AGAINST AL QAEDA TODAY?:
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill Speech in the House of Commons, after taking office as Prime Minister (13 May 1940)
Posted by: LibSlayer | Jul 18, 2007 3:07:48 PM
'Splain this one Lucy:
"The people of America have spoken on the Iraq war, by electing the Democrats in charge of congress." - Reid, Pelosi. et al.
If the American people really wanted to cut and run (in Iraq) the Dems wouldn't have any problems passing their surrender bill.
Should we ask for a recount? Naaah, just follow the template and blame Bush, right?
Posted by: MoronsNeedNotPost | Jul 18, 2007 6:50:54 PM
Finally the 17% solution
Posted by: Bud | Jul 18, 2007 8:41:22 PM
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